Cubeville Forum

Recent cases of stealing/griefing my property have made me think: Is Cubeville's grief and theft punishment/prevention system ideal? After thinking for a while, I answer no, and present a few easy solutions that I believe will make Cubeville better, builder/redstoner friendly, and all in all more fun! First of all, I think that Cubeville's rule page, https://www.cubeville.org/cv-site/rules.html , goes unknown by many of the younger players, leading them to commit more infractions than older players. I propose the entrance/leaving message to the spawn region to be something like, "Please have a reading of our rules at https://www.cubeville.org/cv-site/rules.html !". This would make sure that everyone, young and old, would know about this server's rules, and therefore respect them.

I know this would not solve all griefings, but resolve some before they start. I think griefings and thefts can be classified into 2 main categories: Offences of Malice (Revenge, "For the fun of it") and Those of Ignorance (Not knowing the exact definition of such rules, or the belief breaking them are minor offenses). If we could get people to read the rules more often, the vast majority of the ignorance related crimes would disappear. Then, instead of letting the trolls who won't stop griefing/stealing, even after being told, grief another build, steal another valuable, we could get the off the server faster, while informing an otherwise griefer of ignorance to not grief. This would benefit the server by making griefing/theft cases less frequent, benefiting the would-be griefer/thief by staying on the server they love, having builds on the server safer, and staff could do something other than investigate a grief/theft.

I won’t get into the specifics of how we decide consequences, but all staff are trained in dealing with these issues. If they’re not online when the temp ban occurs they do get spoken with upon return. Everyone who joins completes tutorial before they get to survival though, so they have been informed of the rules upon joining. Also keep in mind that everyone has four protections offered to them to use each map. Personally, I don’t do any building outside of the regions I claim. I occasionally do some terraforming/lighting in global areas next to my regions, but building within your region helps prevent griefing. Adding a rotating thing into chat specifically mentioning the rules page wouldn’t hurt, if the SA’s choose to go that route. We used to not be able to return anything, however, so you were lucky we were able to find and return many of your lost items.

I have already used up my 5 claims, and often build out of them. I am told I should buy E1 and E2 in order to get more claims, but I think it is odd I should have to buy claims, seeing as griefing is explicitly prohibited in the rules, I understand what you have said, but on the same note, I think that the rules page should be featured more prominently, because people can forget rules or rush through the tutorial and miss a few. Rule page links in chat every so often may prevent some griefings.